Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing..
A puny body weakens the soul..
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color..
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after ….
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture..
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting..
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations..
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations..
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain..
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!.
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly wit….